3 ‘Give me, O God, the pledge you demand.Who else will put up security for me?
4 You have closed their minds to understanding;therefore you will not let them triumph.
5 If anyone denounces their friends for reward,the eyes of their children will fail.
6 ‘God has made me a byword to everyone,a man in whose face people spit.
7 My eyes have grown dim with grief;my whole frame is but a shadow.
8 The upright are appalled at this;the innocent are aroused against the ungodly.
9 Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways,and those with clean hands will grow stronger.